Word: islande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LANDER MOORMAN Captiva Island...
Italy alone stands in the way. Since 1934 all of Mussolini's moves have been aimed at driving wedges between the Allies' Eastern and Western Fronts. From Sicily, Sardinia and the Spanish Balearics, the Italians menace Britain's island of Malta; from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there...
...first thousand years of the Christian era the little island of Britain was overrun by hordes of men who rose up out of the sea. In the Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...
Catching two broadbill in one day, extraordinary though it is, is not unprecedented. Two other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
...Henceforth WSXK's audiences will have to identify it as WPIT (for Pittsburgh). Other important changes, most of them effective last week and last fortnight: Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati, W8XAL to WLWO; General Electric Co., Schenectady, W2XAD, W2XAF to WGEA, WGEO; G. E.'s Treasure Island, San Francisco, station, W6XBE to KGEI; CBS, Philadelphia, W3XAU to WCAI; NBC, New York, W3XL, W3XAL to WNBI, WRCA...